Everybody in Venezuela is getting Fridays off because of a drought

Three-day weekends because your country is going through
simultaneous energy, economic, and political crises — not so
great.

That's what's happening in Venezuela.

President Nicolás Maduro
just announced that for the next two months, every Friday
will be a holiday.

The "long weekends," as Maduro called them, are a bid to help
alleviate the country's energy crisis,
the result of a long drought in a country that relies on
hydropower for 60% of its energy. Hydro plants are critically low
on water,
Bloomberg reports.